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"Look!" he gasped "It is the corpse of O-Mai! Ancestor of ancestors! we are in the forbidden chas beyond the grewso screas shook and bellied before their eyes

With one accord, chieftains and warriors, they turned and bolted for the doorway; a narrow doorhere they ja in an effort to escape They threay their swords and clawed at one another to e for escape; those behind climbed upon the shoulders of those in front; and soot through, and, the swiftest first, they bolted across the two intervening chambers to the outer corridor beyond, nor did they halt their , into the banquet hall of O-Tar At sight of them the warriors who had remained with the jeddak leaped to their feet with draords, thinking that their felloere pursued by many enemies; but no one followed them into the room, and the three chieftains ca knees

"Well?" demanded the jeddak "What ails you? Speak!"

"O-Tar," cried one of them when at last he could master his voice "When have we three failed you in battle or co the foremost in defense of your safety and your honor?"

"Have I denied this?" dee us with leniency We followed the two slaves to the apartments of O-Mai the Cruel We entered the accursed chambers and still we did not falter We came at last to that horrid chamber no human eye had scanned before in fifty centuries and we looked upon the dead face of O-Mai lying as he has lain for all this time To the very death chao farther; when suddenly there broke upon our horrified ears thethat s moved and rustled in the dead air O-Tar, it was more than human nerves could endure We turned and fled We threay our swords and fought with one another to escape With sorrow, but without shame, I tell it, for there be no man in all Manator that would not have done the sa their fellow ghosts If they be not Corphals, then already are they dead in the chambers of O-Mai, and there may they rot for all of me, for I would not return to that accursed spot for the harness of a jeddak and the half of Barsoom for an empire I have spoken"